Manager, Advanced Analytics Strategy and Translation

Sysco Corp.; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sysco Corp. seeks a Manager, Advanced Analytics Translator to turn complex business problems into analytics and AI solutions that drive measurable outcomes. You will partner with Business, Data Science, and Technology to translate needs into analytic requirements and embed insights into business workflows.

Lead analysts and collaborate across departments to design, validate, and deploy scalable decision-support solutions that improve performance and outcomes enterprise-wide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an analytical or quantitative field.
• 3+ years in analytics, data science translation, or related roles within a corporate setting.
• Experience translating business problems into analytic requirements and partnering with technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate business problems into analytic requirements, success metrics, constraints, and actions.
• Design and deploy scalable predictive, prescriptive, optimization, and AI-driven solutions.
• Explore data, identify sources, and support data integration for analytics initiatives.
• Develop experimentation plans with baselines, KPIs, and feedback loops.
• Translate model outputs into actionable insights, dashboards, and decisions.
• Integrate analytics into business workflows with transparency and explainability.
• Drive adoption and measure impact of analytics solutions.
• Lead analysts and partners to deliver analytics and decision-support products.

Skills

Analytics concepts

AI/ML basics

Cross-functional collaboration

KPIs & measurement

Business translation

Education

Bachelor's degree in analytics or related field

Job description

COMPENSATION INFORMATION

The pay range provided is not indicative of Sysco's actual pay range but is merely algorithmic and provided for generalized comparison. Factors that may be used to determine rate of pay include specific skills, work location, work experience and other individualized factors

JOB SUMMARY

The Manager, Advanced Analytics Translator is a key player in advancing Sysco's Analytics & AI capabilities. In this role, you will translate complex business problems into analytics, AI, and decision intelligence solutions that drive measurable outcomes. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, Data Science, and Technology teams to define decisions, translate business needs into analytic requirements, guide solution development, and embed insights and recommendations into business workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business problems and decisions into analytic requirements, including objectives, success measures, constraints, rules, and actions, and guide model design for enterprise analytics use cases.
• Partner with Business, Data Science, and Technology teams to design and deploy scalable predictive, prescriptive, optimization, and AI-driven solutions.
• Conduct data exploration and preparation, identify relevant data sources, and support the integration of data required for analytics initiatives.
• Design experimentation and measurement approaches, including baselines, KPIs, and feedback loops, to evaluate and continuously improve business outcomes.
• Translate model outputs into actionable insights, recommendations, decision logic, dashboards, and business-facing experiences.
• Integrate analytics, recommendations, and decision logic into business workflows while supporting transparency and explainability.
• Drive adoption and value realization by monitoring solution performance, decision outcomes, and business impact.
• Manage analysts and business partners to deliver effective analytics and decision-support solutions.

Time allocation estimated as follows

• 30% Translate business needs, rules, thresholds, and operational decisions into analytic requirements and decision models.
• 20% Co-design optimization approaches, decision workflows, and experimentation frameworks with Data Science.
• 20% Partner with stakeholders to integrate solutions into workflows and drive adoption.
• 15% Measure outcomes against baselines and continuously improve solutions.
• 15% Support decision documentation, governance, transparency, and explainability.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in an analytical or quantitative field (e.g., Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Business, Operations Research, or related discipline).

Experience

3+ years in an analytics, strategy, data science translation, product management, finance, or consulting role within a corporate or professional services environment.

Experience translating business problems into analytics requirements and partnering with technical teams to develop data-driven solutions.

Experience defining business KPIs, success measures, or experimentation approaches to evaluate the impact of analytics solutions.

Professional Skills

• Strong understanding of analytics, AI/ML concepts, data technologies, and business value drivers.
• Ability to translate business problems, decisions, rules, and constraints into structured analytical requirements.
• Ability to synthesize complex model outputs into business-relevant recommendations and actions.
• Understanding of experimentation, model evaluation, KPI development, and outcome measurement.
• Working knowledge of predictive and prescriptive analytics, optimization, generative AI, and decision intelligence.
• Strong structured problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills across Business, Data Science, Product, and Technology.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain analytical recommendations, tradeoffs, and outcomes to technical teams and senior leadership.

BENEFITS INFORMATION

For information on Sysco's Benefits, please visit https://SyscoBenefits.com

OVERVIEW

Sysco is the global leader in foodservice distribution. With over 71,000 colleagues and a fleet of over 13,000 vehicles, Sysco operates approximately 333 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 700,000 customer locations.

We offer our colleagues the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization, and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations. We're looking for talented, hard-working individuals to join our team. Come grow with us and let us show you why Sysco is at the heart of food and service.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STATEMENT

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

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